is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, actress and activist. She was born in

Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...

, to Japanese parents and graduated from the University of Tokyo. She worked as a visiting professor at Josai International University. While being held hostage by hijackers on All Nippon Airways Flight 857, Kato used her cell phone to keep in contact with police during the hijacking.

Discography

Album

* 私の中のひとり (1970), Polydor Records * この世に生まれてきたら (1974), Polydor Records * いく時代かがありまして (1975), Polydor Records * 回帰船 (1976), Polydor Records * さびた車輪 (1977) Kitty Records * '' A Siren Dream'' (1983), Polydor Records * 日本哀歌集 (1983), Polydor Records * '' La Femme qui vient de Cypango'' (1991), Universal * '' Hana'' (1995), Universal

Live and collaborations

* ''Live'' – Tokiko Kato and Kiyoshi Hasegawa (1978), Polydor Records * ''Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy'' – Tokiko Kato and Ryuichi Sakamoto (1982), Polydor Records * '' Songs from the Cold Seas'' – Hector Zazou (1994), Columbia Records

Filmography

Films

* '' Izakaya Chōji'' (1983) as Shigeko * '' Hachikō Monogatari'' (1987) as Tamiko * (1990) * '' Porco Rosso'' (1992) as Madame Gina (voice) * ''Open House'' (1998) as Tokiko * (2002) * (2002) as Eiko * ''Let's Talk About the Old Times'' (2022) as herself

Television

# (4 episodes, 2006) as Michiyo Yamashita # (2017) narration

References

External links

* 1943 births Japanese women singer-songwriters Hijacking survivors Living people Japanese people from Manchukuo 20th-century Japanese actresses 21st-century Japanese actresses 20th-century Japanese women singers 20th-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers {{Japan-singer-stub